Amir Drori

Amir Drori (15 August 1937-12 March 2005) was a Major-Genreal of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) during the Suez War, Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War, and Lebanese Civil War.

Biography
Amir Drori was born on 15 August 1937 in Tel Aviv in the Mandate of Palestine, part of the United Kingdom. Drori was drafted into the Israel Defense Force in 1955 and he served in the Suez War with Egypt, and he gained the Medal of Courage in 1960 during an attack on Syria. Drori took command of the 13th Battalion of the Golani Infantry Brigade during the Six-Day War, and he served in the Suez, Jordan Valley, and Golan Heights during the War of Attrition and in the Yom Kippur War, during which he defended Mount Hermon Outpost from the Syrian Arab Army in early October 1973. He later led troops during the 1982 Israeli intervention in the Lebanese Civil War. He retired in 1988 after failing to become Chief-of-Staff of the IDF and died of a heart attack while hiking in the Negev.